The Other Dilip Kumar

As the car heaves uphill from the Khar end, I notice a high blue scaffolding covering that familiar old place.  A sign board is clearly visible outside. Despite the sm...

Fukrey - Walking the thin line between Stupid and Funny

Cast: Pulkit Samrat, Ali Fazal, Manjot Singh, Varun Sharma, Priya Anand, Richa Chadda, Vishakha Singh

Direction: Mrighdeep Singh Lamba

Producer: Farhan Akht...

Shashi Kapoor - The Actor Without Airs Is No More

Shashi Kapoor, born as Balbir Prithviraj Kapoor, who was adored as the Adonis of Hindi Cinema and hailed as an actor with a global appeal of his own is no more. The embodim...

Firangi - Deliberately Plodding

Cast: Kapil Sharma, Ishita Dutta, Monica Gill, Inaamulhaq

Direction: Rajiev Dhingra

Producer: Kapil Sharma

Writer: Rajiev Dhingra

Genre: Com...

Can Google ever replace Teachers?

When in school, I clearly remember writing the day's homework in my almanac with the pointy pencil I sharpened a night before going to bed and writing down notes which the ...

What’s gone wrong with TV news in India

Broadcast news has dominated as the major source of news and information across the world for over 3 decades. This was all the more possible...

Time is running out, was said 25 years ago by World's Leading Scientists

A document called “World Scientists' Warning to Humanity” released 25 years ago, in November 1992 warned us that human beings and the natural world are on a col...

Kadvi Hawa

Cast: Sanjay Mishra, Ranvir Shorey, Tillotama Shome

Direction: Nila Madhab Panda

Producer: Manish Mundra, Akshay Kumar Parija, Nila Madhab Panda

Wri...

The Little Gems of Nonpur

Place: Nonpur Begusarai, Bihar, India

The Film: Master ki class

In Begusarai I was in the place called Nonpur. Nonpur is a small village wher...